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husband, the whale, built a boat of immense swiftness, so as to be
a match to a flying bird, even able to outdo a gull (5).

A girl taken by an eagle, who carried her as his bride to the
top of a steep cliff (8).

A man mated himself with a seafowl. He saw many women
bathing in a lake
and secured the clothes of one among them,
whereupon the others changed into birds and flew away (12).

A girl married an „atliarusek“ (underworld people). His boat
was able to dive and continue its course beneath the waves of the
sea (20).

The lost daughter found by her brothers as married with a
monstrous reptile
(21).

The inlanders in dancing transformed themselves into animals (28).

The sun and moon originally sister and brother (35).

Training wild animals for pulling a sledge (37).

Kayakers in captivity with the underworld-people (46, 65).

A woman mated with a dog. Origin of the Inlanders and the
White men (148).

Origin of seals and whales from the daughter of a mighty
angakok, who threw her in the sea, in order to save himself (see
Vol. I, p. 17).

An angakok-flight in order to restore the health to a child by
fetching back its spirit, which was taken by the inlanders (44).

Giviok crossed the sea in his kayak for Akilinek; he passed
the „sea-lice“, which devoured his throwing-stick, and a narrow
passage between two icebergs, opening and closing. Came to
cannibals (15).

An angakok and his brothers in law drifting upon ice to
Akilinek and afterwards back again. Taking the shape of a bear and
assisted by amulets (16, 23).

A man coming from Akilinek In a sledge pulled by reindeers (37).

Angakok-flight to Akilinek; an iceberg turned over and crushed
a „kagse“ (public building) with its assembly (45).

Travellers to Akilinek give their boat a double coating (82).

A boy fled to Akilinek in a kayak. The giant-people and the
monstrous gulls (84).

Expedition to the inlanders for the purpose af procuring metal
knives. — A man descended both from the coast people and the
inlanders, his great deeds. — Onslaught on the coast people. —
See also Vol. I, p. 16—21.

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